What Season Should You Watch (WSSYW) Thread 2.0

Howdy, and welcome to the second official What Season Should You Watch (WSSYW) thread for The Challenge, inspired by other reality show subreddits !

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The show and this sub have gotten MUCH more popular in the past year, with the 2 War of the Worlds seasons bringing in many new fanbases and the New Mods adding structure and spoiler protections for the sub. We’ve enjoyed 2 absolutely electric seasons and gained more than 15,500 members since the last time I ran this, in Nov 2018. (Seriously, check out the Wayback Machine from 2 Dec 2018, it’s crazy).

We have many new users and viewers of the show, thanks in part to the expansion of the casting pool - bringing in alumni from all manner of reality shows, and even a YouTube series (EFF) and softcore p*rn telenovelas (Alan).

Now there are 34 regular seasons of The Challenge + 4 spin-offs, and that's a lot to wade through if you're a new fan! So this thread is here to help you, if you are new to the show or the sub in general!

Shameless plug: Guide for New Viewers.

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##How WSSYW werks

I will make parent comments with all the seasons of The Challenge, and users should upvote, downvote, or not vote based on how much a (new) viewer should watch the season.

• if you love the season, upvote!

• if you think it's boring, downvote!

• if it's important for future storylines, upvote!

• if it requires or benefits from knowing previous seasons/history, considering downvoting - since it's not great for a brand new user.

• if you’re indifferent about it and/or haven’t seen the season – leave it unvoted!

You can also leave comments in the parent comments, discussing why you like/dislike or recommend/don't recommend the season. But these comments should be wholly spoiler-free, since the idea of a WSSYW thread is that a new user can read over it to see where they want to dive in to watch a season. I will delete comments that leave season spoilers.

In last year’s WSSYW 1.0, I put in spoiler text why a season might be important to watch – if it’s the origin of a seasons-long relationship or rivalry, for instance, or if it has the debut of a huge, 10+ season competitor. Feel free to do the same, but remember the spoiler text.

If you don’t know, you do this formatting: >!spoiler text goes here!< and it'll appear like this: >!spoiler text goes here!<

Get it? Got it? Grand.

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##TL;DR

upvote seasons you like or are important in Challenge herstory; downvote seasons you dislike or require previous knowledge; leave spoiler-free comments to explain why; glhf

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I’ll let this run over the holidays, since Season 34 just ended; Season 35 is expected in early 2020; and people will be home from work/school and might be bored.

Let’s get to it!